Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-30
FROM TEX48 10 CALIFORNIA.
Eho Ignls FzIcas on tho Coc-ss-Eho gM
mate IS Selling i.ots
Dailas News.


| District Judge g. n, A!dridg9, wao HIS
| Just returned from tour q California,
vas interviewed yesterday by New -
| porter on the Impressions he had formed
OF tse Golden Ssste.
'It hss," the Judge proceeded, SIS fine
climate, which, perhaps, Is the best tha<
about its climate l viii aid that
! ter thaa I 60 tha1 Of Los Angeles
As the la4ter place the thermometer
| read one CAY 94' il the shade and there
was damp, Geld fog resting on it Ike g
wet blanket a. night. At San Diego you
! can back IN the suns rays 81 middsy
| feeling pleasant. Speculation in resi-
estate is perfectly wild at Les ADgeltis
| End nearly ae bad st San DISCO. People
| who have gone to San Diego with money
have bought more town lola taan would
| be necessary to domicile the city Of Lon
| don. For eight miles round they have
laid Off lots which they sye Selliag t.
| purchasers who must know that their
| lots have 40 intrinsic value. Ninety psr
! cent. of the transactions ere Wild cat and
must eTentuste il grand crash. AS for
| San Diego I think it mas bright future,
It's hsrbor being 400 miles nearer to
| South Amarica ard Australia thst San
Francisco is; but Ill kinds OF property
ere held at speculative prices il bc,A
places. Business properly in Los An
| geles is worth from $1,000 to $3.50 PEE
front foot, &2d Il almost ra,es Vt thar n
San Diego"
SIS there any possible basis for this
m1nis to light ou?"
gT po1IS d:-pT,vaT f-O0 WTac<
err Texas to Cotton, near Los Angeles, |
would not sccep5 the whole country Us
6 gift. It seems 10 be acolt.1U0us barren
waste, IN which life might bs z constant
! struggle Ger eXiacsBce. TEer SIC CgilfOT-
nia mountains cover AEON So 2 = cent. q
! il, while there Is nor ia. 4 enough 10
irri5a!5 l p5r cen. 0l tie Iemsinder
OF il. Grapes end wheat DO MT
require Tatey, AID west, Ike
grapes, does well, but wl0 cares 70
pay from $500 20 $1,000 an acrs lor lard
to grow wheat, particularly 81 such :,
distance from market? California frui
is the finest looking in the world, but IL Is
lacking in saccaariae, and l 72s informed
by one of the lesding fruit growers that
there is no longer any money Ia the IN
| dustry. This is due 10 the great number
engaged il the business and the high r&te
of wages, which symp2thjsas with
speculation. There is OILY about per
cent OF the fruit land in cuitiya ion,
and with the market slCesdy
glutted, what is To become ii it wnen tue
remaining SO per cent. is set cut? Il may
in my opinion, be truly said that the
climate OF Californis sells its land.
have seen more verdure in Dallas county
than in the whole Of Southern California,
| and l believe that il raises more agricul-
tural products then does that sectlon. II
fact, saW more evidence Of agricultural
prosperity between Sherman and Dallas
than in the 5000 miles 1 Travelled
before reaching Sherman, il l ex-
| cept the lands OF the San
Joaquin and Sacramento valleys. After
you leave the Sacramento valley you
strike the Sierra Nevada mountains, and
from there, with the exception of the Jor-
dan and Utah valleys in Utah, the coun-
try is barren waste until you get to